R5 - Planning My Research

In order to create the best radio news cast, we need to research the most important thing - What makes a good radio news cast? We need to be able to know about radio inside out which means we must know about the codes and conventions of radio news, institutions of radio news, different types of news, examples of them and about the audience. This is important because if we don't know about this, we will not be able to make our news cast to the best of our ability. Most of this can be found out using secondary forms of research. However to personally reach our target audience, we need to use primary forms of research to find out what it is exactly that our audience will find appealing.

Saleha	Kawsar	Simi
-          Codes and Conventions of Radio news : S	-          A case study of a radio station that produces only London news : P & S	-          Questionnaire : P
-          Defamation : S	-          What are news values? : S	-          Regulation – OFCOM : S
-          Review of 3 radio newscasts from different London radio stations : P & S	-          Review of 3 radio newscasts from different London radio stations : P & S	-          Review of 3 radio newscasts from different London radio stations : P & S
-          Information from a radio practitioner or journalist : P	-          Audience survey and analysis : P	-          Focus group : P
Research into how to: -          Do a vox pop : P & S	Research into how to: -          How to conduct a good news interview : P & S -          Write news : S	Research into how to: -          Present news : S -          Do an outside broadcast : S
-          News Ethics : P	- Deformation : S	- Deformation : S
-          Conversations with your sample audience : P

We have decided to split our research into three parts between our group. The secondary research will be split between us. We have decided to do it like this because we feel that whatever we are researching, we will be able to do this better than another person in the group. It is also more fair and equal if we are researching things between us as well as the factor that our abilities will be best shown doing these specific things eventually bringing out the best of us as a team.